Firefox tricks
I’ve been using firefox for a number of years now, and I keep discovering new ways to browse more efficently. I often accumulate all of the tabs with things I may be interested in looking at in the near future, but which don’t merit bookmarking. Just recently, I discovered that the browser history can be used to this end much more effectively. Say I’m looking for page with all the options for Apache’s mod_rewrite. I know that I was looking at it yesterday, but I’ve closed the tab. Ctrl-H to open the history sidebar, start typing “mod_rewrite” in the search field, and I find it. Approximate time, start to finish: 4 seconds.
The other trick I’ve been using recently is the shortcut key to get to the Google search box in the top right: Ctrl-K. Try it. Want to search for something on Google? Ctrl-K, type, enter. (If you know exactly where you want to go, Ctrl-L will take your cursor to the location bar.
July 30th, 2006 at 7:45 pm
If you have a Google account, their Search History can be pretty useful for this too. Not quite as open-community friendly as delicious is, but totally efficient just because like with Firefox, it takes no extra steps on your part to record where you’ve been. You can then tag any of the links for easier browsing.
July 31st, 2006 at 10:17 pm
It took me a while to figure out that hitting the scrool wheel like a mouse button will open in a new tab. It definitely saves the right-click for “Open in New Tab” which always took forever. Maybe one of these days I’ll list the couple extensions I have running on mine.
August 1st, 2006 at 4:43 pm
psst. left a comment a couple posts down. hope all’s well in in! in in. fun times with no caps.